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    Emil Lazarian
  • 6 years ago
    • Categories: 2018

Sports: Situation around Henrikh Mkhitaryan remains complex, Azerbaijani commentator admits

Panorama, Armenia
Sept 29 2018
Sport 13:39 29/09/2018

Arsenal are due to travel to Baku on October 4 for a EUFA Europa League group stage tie against Azerbaijani champions Qarabag. It is still unclear whether Armenian national team captain and Arsenal midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan will travel Baku amid the ban to enter Azerbaijan and out of out of security concerns. 

Commentator at Russian Match TV Channel Elvin Qerimov has spoken about the topic, sport 24.ru reports.

“The situation around Mkhitaryan is complex. No athlete should ever face similar situation. The Europa League final will also be played in Baku and it is important to solve the matter to the benefit of football not politics. Sport unites people, helps to interact, get friends which may lead to reconciliation and not to the opposite,” Qerimov said. 

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS